LE

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.

LE

LE

How can anyone use the words 'smart' and 'american' in the same sentence? The weapon may be 'Smart' but the fcukwits using it won't be!!!!!

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. So-oldier of the Queen!

GCM

Good God-hope it can be fitted with IFF transponder detector,or can be kept away from anywhere our lot are deployed Sounds like a good weapon,but with a disaster option built in,like a hand-held Warthog

LE

The whole concept is highly flawed. Do they really imagine that a grenade the size of a large marble will be effective, even if it does have a fancy airburst function? Some years ago they demonstrated the prototype to the top brass by bursting balloons - I kid you not.

Oh, and I understand that the ammo costs something like 20 times the cost of 40mm grenades, so only rich countries need apply.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. So-oldier of the Queen!

GCM

The whole concept is highly flawed. Do they really imagine that a grenade the size of a large marble will be effective, even if it does have a fancy airburst function? Some years ago they demonstrated the prototype to the top brass by bursting balloons - I kid you not.

Oh, and I understand that the ammo costs something like 20 times the cost of 40mm grenades, so only rich countries need apply.

Ah, but you miss the point. Like each new year of running shoes (trainers) brings some new stripes, colors or latest greatest insole, so does the weapons industry do likewise. Of course this supposes they don't rediscover the alchemy involved in the "Holy Hand Grenade" from the classic Holy Grail movie (film). In that event we may run afoul of the IAEA with such lethal 20mm projos.

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." Edmund Burke

War Hero

I thought this got binned a long while ago, when they also ditched the snazzed-up G36 copy.

Gun_Nut said:

The whole concept is highly flawed. Do they really imagine that a grenade the size of a large marble will be effective, even if it does have a fancy airburst function? Some years ago they demonstrated the prototype to the top brass by bursting balloons - I kid you not.

Oh, and I understand that the ammo costs something like 20 times the cost of 40mm grenades, so only rich countries need apply.

I see where you're coming from, the round is smaller, but if you're able to put it right on top of someone then I'm willing to bet this allows the round to be smaller. A 25mm round may not have the bang of a 40mm round, but I still wouldn't want it going bang a foot away from my head...

LE

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. So-oldier of the Queen!